The Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), which has 13 member-states and is based in Burkina Faso, has produced data that show West African traders of perishable produce and livestock have seen losses of 10% to 30% since health restrictions came in, as transport is...
It is no doubt that the tourism and aviation sectors of the economy have taken the hardest hit during on-going pandemic. Hotels, restaurants, guest houses are contemplating laying off staff with many complaining that the GH¢600 million stimulus package for SMEs will not be sufficient to even bail out...
The country’s Fisheries Management Plan, which is currently under review, states that the marine fisheries can sustain 48 trawlers. Yet 76 trawlers were licensed as at the end of 2019.
Ghana’s fish population is already in dire straits and the arrival into Ghanaian waters of three new trawlers from China...
Speaker of Parliament Mike Oquaye last week directed the Medical Directorate of the legislative body to conduct mandatory tests for all the 275 MPs and auxiliary workers at Parliament - and the word going round is that some have tested positive for the dreaded virus.
While Parliament’s Public Affairs Directorate...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC), in a document titled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Enterprises, Employment and Livelihoods in Ghana, Some Proposed Mitigating Measures’, is making a case for commercial transport owners and drivers in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
TUC is asking government to waive the Vehicle Income Tax (VIT)...
As the month of May draws to a close and Ghanaians are eagerly waiting to hear the president announce lifting restrictions to pave the way for normal life to resume, the World Health Organisation is warning Africa against relaxing its testing efforts for COVID-19.
Africa’s case count is still low...
Field Ready Ltd. - a UK SME that collaborates with government and industry to run employability programmes that prepare young graduates with the skills - ran a Field Ready ventilator challenge which was a 4-week challenge to design simple, practical and scalable ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A...
President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, Rev. Professor Frimpong-Manso, is certainly a voice of reason - as he is asking religious bodies not to rush the president into taking a decision to re-open churches in the wake of increasing numbers of COVID-19 in Ghana.
This is in view...
Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Dr. John Kofi Mensah believes COVID-19 presents Ghanaians with the best opportunity to localise the entire food production value chain in the country and become less reliant on import of basics such as rice and poultry.
“This is the time to be...
The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have expressed worry over the high number of job losses in the country due the outbreak of COPVID-19.
The GNCCI is asking businesses to resort to furlough – a temporary leave of absence granted...